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Shakesthecoffecan:
And look at the smiles on their faces!  :o They are so off the wall I don't see them attracting many followers. Some straight people may not like homosexuality, but don't mess with their soldiers.

I am waiting for the day I see these pictures in a book when one of those kids comes out of the closet and tells their story. Talk about fixiated on something. If all the fags in the wolrd dissapeared, would they find someone else to hate? Like the left handed?

Lynne:
Thank you for posting those pictures, David.  They get the point across they way mere words cannot.

Indoctrinating, brainwashing, their children with hate - those parents should be declared unfit and the children adopted by loving gay couples...But we live in a society with free speech, so that won't work, will it?

Isn't it curious that anybody can produce a child...You should have seen the hoops I had to jump through to adopt my two cats!  Irony there.

Like a lot of us, I'm not particularly religious, but spiritual.  I was raised in a fundamentalist church.  If I said 'God hates <insert any verb> fags <insert any group>, I'd be afraid I'd be struck dead and dumb right there.  Doesn't that seem to be the ultimate arrogance, to presume you have a categorical understanding of what God thinks.

Maybe this is another form of mental illness, self-delusion, delusions of grandeur - they just haven't been diagnosed yet.

The adults are probably a lost cause.  But maybe the children can be saved.  Maybe they'll grow up, get out on their own, meet people who weren't raised like them, and have a real revelation.

Lynne:

--- Quote from: Shakestheground on April 25, 2007, 05:04:23 pm ---Some straight people may not like homosexuality, but don't mess with their soldiers.
--- End quote ---

Here's another question...what's the difference in a religion and a cult?  I'll go check it out.  Maybe children can be taken away if their parents are in a cult?

moremojo:

--- Quote from: Lynne on April 25, 2007, 05:09:31 pm ---Here's another question...what's the difference in a religion and a cult?  I'll go check it out.  Maybe children can be taken away if their parents are in a cult?
--- End quote ---
There's that joke that begins with the question: What's the difference between a cult and a religion? Answer: Two thousand years.

Truth is, what has evolved into orthodox Christianity was, in its earliest days, seen by officialdom as one crackpot fringe religion among many others, and very much the social problem that we deem modern 'cults' to be. It is merely the weight of centuries and tradition that has changed how this particular 'cult' (and all other religions) has come to be viewed.

I think that we tend to call a faith that gains our respect, if not necessarily our belief, a 'religion', while those faith-based systems that engender the opposite feeling are cited as 'cults'. Otherwise, I think the terminology tends to be arbitrary.

LauraGigs:
The Daily Texan Online article Moremojo refers to had really interesting reader comments at the bottom. (At least as of the other day when I read it)

All were by people who self-identified as Christian and/or military and/or conservative, and they all said Phelps is a scary, intolerant nutjob.

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